Tai Lam Country Park , established on 23 February 1979, is a country park located in Tai Lam , at the south of Yuen Long Town , Kam Tin and Shek Kong and east of Tuen Mun Town , in the western New Territories of Hong Kong. This country park has an area of 54 km².
6-557: The country park is named after Tai Lam where the park is located nearby. A river stream also named after the area as Tai Lam Chung ( 大欖涌 ). Due to the construction of a dam, the water flows into the Tai Lam Chung Reservoir . The reservoir is entirely surrounded by the country park. The reservoir is managed by the Water Supplies Department . Tai Lam Tunnel and Tai Lam railway tunnel pass through
12-711: Is a reservoir in Tai Lam Country Park , Tuen Mun District , New Territories , Hong Kong. Tai Lam Chung Reservoir is the first reservoir built in Hong Kong after the Second World War . As the demand for clean water supplies in Hong Kong grew greater, the construction work of the reservoir commenced in 1952 and was completed in 1957. Formed by a main dam across the Tai Lam Chung Valley, there are three supplemental dams that cross
18-1017: The Shek Kong , Pat Heung catchwater and the Tuen Mun catchwater. In addition, there are a lot of trails. For example, the MacLehose Trail and the Kap Lung Forest Trail start from the top of Route Twisk near the Country Park Management Centre. The Twisk Nature Trail near the Country Park Management Centre introduces the natural environment and human impacts in the area. The fitness trail at So Kwun Wat catchwater provides 14 sets of fitness equipment for visitors and morning walkers. 22°23′38″N 114°00′24″E / 22.3938875°N 114.0067274°E / 22.3938875; 114.0067274 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Tai Lam Chung Reservoir
24-564: The country park underground. A village, as well as two prisons: Tai Lam Centre for Women and Tai Lam Correctional Institution [ zh ] , all outside the boundary of the country park, are named after Tai Lam. The tai ( Chinese : 大 ) in Tai Lam means large. There is another area known as Siu Lam , which siu ( Chinese : 小 ) means small in Chinese. A series of barbecue and picnic sites are provided along Route Twisk ,
30-549: The late 1960s, the government of Hong Kong started to import water from Dongjiang in China to improve the situation of water shortages at the time. The water was transferred to Tai Lam Chung Reservoir, which made it important in Hong Kong's water supply system. In recent years, this reservoir is also given the nickname "the Thousand Island Lake of Hong Kong" due to the similarity in sceneries. The villages flooded by
36-567: The nearby valley. Its water storage capacity is about 21 million cubic metres. In order to plan for the construction of the reservoir, the government had to relocate villages of the Tai Lam Villages and Kan Uk Tei Villages to the Tai Uk Wai Villages for re-settlement. Several villages were flooded by the reservoir, including Tai Lam Village ( 大欖村 ), Tai Wai Village, Kan Uk Tei Village ( 關屋地村 ) and Wu Uk Village. In
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